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Attorneys Suspect Motel 6 Calling ICE on Undocumented Guests

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"We send a report every morning to ICE — all the names of everybody that comes in. Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE."

Freedom-loving right wing patriots are turning America into East Germany. The irony burns like acid.

Not a great analogy. In East Germany the wall was to keep people in.

It started under Obama, but keep up the Left-Right narrative. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150418/11370530715/motel...

It is fascinating how strongly some people react to illegal immigrants.

Does Motel 6 hand over their guest list to local police so they can check to see if any of them are wanted for murder or rape? Nope! But being in the country illegally? Can't have that!

I wonder what the false positive rate is. If I had a common Hispanic name like, say, José Sanchez, I'd stay the hell away from Motel 6. Who knows where I might end up.

They (allegedly) send the full list in. The cops are not only looking for citizenship clues, but also outstanding warrants. So if you're behind on child support, or have unpaid parking tickets - stay somewhere else.

They send the full list to ICE. Does ICE check that list for all outstanding warrants, including things not related to immigration? That would be going well beyond their mandate if so.

>> Does Motel 6 hand over their guest list to local police so they can check to see if any of them are wanted for murder or rape? Nope! But being in the country illegally? Can't have that!

Everyone has their thing, and they are here illegally - not just undocumentedly as the media keeps trying to repaint it. But I'm curious who they hire for housekeeping at motel 6, I suspect they may be using the same type of people they are reporting and that would IMHO be rather umm... Choose your words for that.

They might also call the local police if a guy with some young girls was staying there with a constant string of men dropping by. You don't know that illegals are the only ones they like to report.

They're not reporting suspected illegal immigrants to ICE. They're sending their entire guest list to ICE every day. This is quite different from calling the cops when you have some actual reason to suspect a crime is in progress.

> Does Motel 6 hand over their guest list to local police so they can check to see if any of them are wanted for murder or rape? Nope!

well, apparently, yes, they were.

this is just how arizona does things.

Where do you get that from?

In the article, they kind of gloss over it. Basically it would appear Motel 6 sends list, ICE checks that against active warrants and shows up if people with warrants are found.

The people arrested in the article had previous warrants out for their arrest.

Yes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/motel-6-admits-immigrati...

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